{"id":5587,"date":"2026-09-19T11:12:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T10:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=5587"},"modified":"2026-09-19T11:40:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T10:40:03","slug":"a-wee-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/2026\/09\/a-wee-break\/","title":{"rendered":"A Wee Break"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We had a few days away in Scotland, wandering, hiding, drinking, sleeping, and taking a photo or two…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our first stop was on the way to our accommodation, just outside Dumfries is the stone circle Twelve Apostles<\/em> –<\/p>\n\n\n

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On the first day we visited Crawick Multiverse,<\/em> which continued the standing stone theme really \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n\n

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We also stopped by one of those Andy Goldsworthy eggs, I believe it’s an advertisement for his building work, or maybe a sample of his brickwork abilities.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The next day we popped round to Threave House<\/em>, we didn’t go into the actual house but wandered around the gardens…<\/p>\n\n\n

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Leaving Threave<\/em> we had a drive around Loch Ken<\/em>, my Loch Barbie joke wasn’t all that funny after I repeated it on a five minute rotation, we did stumble across a nice waterfall which called for some long exposure photographs \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n\n

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We popped into the churchyard in Kirkland<\/em> as there were commonwealth war graves marked there, not that this the photo of those graves…<\/p>\n\n\n

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Our obligatory trip to see the sea ended up with a drive to Ayr<\/em> –<\/p>\n\n\n

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Finally a trip to Kirroughtree<\/em> for a wander under, erm, trees –<\/p>\n\n\n

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Yes, we did get lost in the woods, I blame the markers that we were supposed follow were a bit random at times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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